http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:34:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With all the recent talk about sustainable energy , our species is causing the extinction of up to 30,000 other species per year.  This article from today's Los Angeles Times should have been front page news. Here's are some short excerpts from this fascinating and important research. "Butterfly wings are so synonymous with bold ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=685 Those of you that have been reading my blog are aware that I have been deeply affected by the Gulf oil disaster. I have been playing with ukulele designs and came up with this fantasy. If only oil rigs could be washed away and magically replaced by wind turbines and solar ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=676 Ocean Researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean and shocking stats about its rapid decline as she makes her TED Prize wish: that we will join her in protecting the vital blue heart of the planet. If you are a parent or grandparent or simply love a child ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=672 [caption id="attachment_660" align="aligncenter" width="720" caption="Black Death"][/caption] I was born in Florida and am very intimate with the sensitive flora and fauna of an estuary. It is with great grief in my heart that I have watched the BP oil disaster unfold. Crude oil 70,000 barrels or nearly 3 million gallons per day. A slow-motion tragedy thick ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=661 The henna design for the Henna Paradise was executed by U.K. Henna artist Alex Morgan especially for Luna Guitars and is based on The Conference of the Birds, one of the great works of world literature by Farid ud-Din Attar. In it, Attar explores the nature of the spiritual path ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=647 I went to a poetry reading last evening at the Karma Cafe to hear a friend of mine, Richard Downing, do a reading from his recent book Four Steps Off the Path. This one is about global warming. What does global warming have to do with guitars? Read on. Polar Bear ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=639 I was studying Tai Chi and learning a "Bagua" warmup routine when the idea of the Zen guitar came to me. Zen is, by it's very nature, hard to talk about.....like the proverbial finger pointing beyond itself to the moon. It is a state of no-mind in which thought, emotions, ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=632 [caption id="attachment_603" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="The Lady of Shalott by John Waterhouse"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_588" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Luna's Fantasie series "Lady of Shalott" "][/caption] Few images have captured the mystique of Camelot more brilliantly than John Waterhouse's Lady of Shalott. Waterhouse's art was inspired by a poem of the same name by the English ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=586 [caption id="attachment_579" align="aligncenter" width="451" caption="Playing with Fire"][/caption] In my post of Sept 2, I wrote about Polynesian body ornamentation that was the inspiration for two of our new Luna ukes pictured above. I used this picture to showcase them because of the obvious juxtaposition of body and instrument ornamentation but I ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=578 [caption id="attachment_569" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Playing for Change"][/caption] This is an amazing project, and their mission statement is so similar to the deeply held convictions of Luna Guitars: From their website: www.playingforchange.com "Playing for Change is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea ... http://www.yvonnedevilliers.com/?p=567